Editors' Note

We are delighted to present to you Volume 1 Issues 1 and 2 of the Journal of Development Policy Review (JDPR). This is a Special Issue on the ‘COVID-19 Pandemic and India'. It is divided into the following sections: Insights, Policy Perspectives, Special Articles, Young Voices and Report Review. Articles in these sections focus on the COVID-19 pandemic that has already posed and continues to pose innumerable challenges for policymakers and citizens across the globe. The pandemic has demonstrated how vulnerable are our economies, health care systems, environment and societies as well as social systems, especially when the strong bond of globalization has connected all the countries of the world. An increasing number of infected persons, fatalities, skyrocketing unemployment, and access to healthcare facilities becoming inadequate, etc. have been a feature for advanced, emerging, and developing and even underdeveloped economies, alike (of course in varying degrees). Though COVID-19 is a universal challenge, developing countries are disproportionately hurt. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.411269